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Senegal PM says tyrannical West wants to 'impose' homosexuality

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Friday condemned Western "tyranny" in wanting to "impose" homosexuality, and rejected any attempt to stop the application of a new law toughening sentences for same-sex relations.

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00:01Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Songkon Frayde condemned whom he termed Western tyranny in wanting to impose homosexuality and rejected any
00:09attempt to stop the application of a new law toughening sentences for same-sex relations.
00:17No Asian country will criticize us. No Arab country will criticize us. No African country will criticize us. But there
00:25is a small call that is called the West.
00:28At the end of March, President Basirudio Maifai signed a law doubling the maximum penalty for same-sex relations. Dozens
00:38of arrests have already been made under the legislation.
00:42So there is less than 5 or 10 percent of the West's population who, because they have the means, because
00:47they control the media, want to impose themselves, their culture, their civilization. Besides, we won't dare talk about civilization in
00:53this case because it isn't civilization and yet they now want to impose it on the rest of the world.
00:58In the name of what?
01:02Before becoming Senegal's Prime Minister in 2024, Songko had promised to make same-sex relations a crime, harping the offense
01:11from his previous classification as misdemeanor.
01:15Thank you very much.
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